Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...staging the game saves both Universities from receiving any comment that there would be a mercenary incentive behind a fourth tilt and that the "gate" prospect would decide the place of this encounter. But other factors probably entered into the consideration also. The hockey season has already gone its limit and only the professionals are still at it on the ice. But professional schedules always run longer in any sport. The teams at the other Universities have turned in their skates at least two weeks ago. Winter sports have heard the death-knell and spring athletic teams...
...campaign recently entered upon by the office to secure for students summer positions in fields which they are considering for their life-work. Students are eligible for these positions the summer following their junior year. At present the plan is in the experimental stage, but there is every prospect that it will be fully developed in the next few seasons...
What was surprising about Judge Thacher's acceptance was that his judgeship was a life office. Relatively young, wealthy, Judge Thacher had been tempted away from judicial security by the prospect of more lively and strenuous action before the Supreme Court...
Another feature of the graduate employment situation is of interest. Every year a number of engineers and personnel directors from several of the large manufacturing concerns are invited to speak at the Institute on the advantages of obtaining positions with their respective companies. Inevitably they have pictured the prospect in rosy, colors, and told of steady advancement and benign supervision. But many students, after listening to one of these men, have been found to exhibit a feeling of uneasiness; a fear, perhaps not altogether unwarranted, that in accepting such a position they will automatically become mere cogs in a huge...
...President and answerable only to him. By law one is an Army engineer, charged with municipal construction, street paving, water, sewer plants and the like. By tradition and law the other two are civilian residents of the District. What set the city's voteless populace to lamenting the prospect of military dictatorship was President Hoover's announcement last week that he would appoint Major General Herbert Ball Crosby, now chief of cavalry at the War Department, to one of the non-military District Commissionships. General Crosby's appointment is believed to be legal because of a Department...